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...This is Rebecca F Kuang’s fifth novel — at 27, she is already a cross-genre literary phenomenon....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Results: Two large drugmakers, Pfizer and Merck, report second-quarter earnings....
...There are plenty of counterfactuals here (not only Biden and Obama, but also John F Kennedy and Harry Truman)....
...It’s also one of the qualities in untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play that appeals to her....
...As a brash young property developer in the 1970s, Donald Trump learnt the dark arts of using the tabloid press from one of the masters: mob lawyer and Trump mentor Roy Cohn, who was known to dictate items...
...Birchers reviled John F Kennedy as another avatar of anti-American “one-worldism”....
...We’ve all seen those ‘farewell’ emails that go viral with ‘F**K YOU BOSS’ spelled out from the first letter of each sentence....
...At Manhattan’s Lincoln Center, the cast danced to Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” while guests sipped on a custom whiskey cocktail named “F*CK OFF” — a reference to the cantankerous character Logan Roy...
...Exclusive: US to withdraw permanent F-15 fighter force from Okinawa The US air force plans to replace its entire fleet of F-15 fighter jets based in Okinawa, Japan, with a “rotational” force....
...NDTV’s founders, Prannoy and Radhika Roy, stepped down from its board last month. It is a sad tale and a barometer of where India is heading....
...“cash out and f**k off”, Logan makes an offer to buy out his son’s stake in Waystar Royco for $2,015,708,009. Two whole yards....
...Zarir F Udwadia Mumbai, India...
...’s Covid-19 vaccine," said senior vice president Roy Baynes....
...Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café Letters in response to this column: Joyce’s most difficult novel is better on audiobook / From Zarir F Udwadia, Mumbai, India An Elizabethan essayist...
...(Bloomberg) News round-up Merck to buy Acceleron Pharma for $11.5bn (FT) Family office for Chanel billionaires cashes in on Olaplex IPO (BBG) Ex-Goldman Sachs compliance analyst accused of insider trading...
...It is full of f-bombs courtesy of its “hard man” player Roy Kent (UK readers will spot the likeness to real-life Roy Keane) and has storylines so corny and simple that they would make Love Actually’s Richard...
...So it takes serious chutzpah to tinker with another writer’s character, especially if that character is Nick Carraway, the superbly wry, detached narrator of F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 masterpiece The Great...
...The letter was organised by Ken Chenault, former chief executive of American Express, and Ken Frazier, outgoing chief executive of Merck....
...Three of the largest vaccine makers — GlaxoSmithKline, Merck and Sanofi — have been left playing catch-up in the race to develop Covid-19 jabs....
...For the first time ever, the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list was dominated by books on anti-racism, from Ijoema Oluo’s So You Want To Talk about Race to Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad....
...(FT) Merck chief executive to retire Kenneth Frazier, one of only a handful of African-American chief executives of Fortune 500 companies, will retire from his post as Merck chief executive this summer,...
...Dr Roy Vagelos, chief executive of the drugmaker until 1994, said Mr Frazier was hired because he was “smart and decisive” but also recalls that he was impressed by the lawyer’s commitment to social justice...
...In this exclusive report, FT reporters reveal that China is exploring limiting the export of rare earth minerals that are crucial for the manufacture of American F-35 fighter jets and other sophisticated...
...Cox finds that same existential unease in Roy. “He is a misanthrope. A nihilist. Basically he is disappointed with the human experiment. And that is where you get this merry cry of ‘F**k it!’...
...Kennedy Jr, son of Robert F Kennedy and a prominent anti-vaccination campaigner....
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